In May 2019 Journalist and Filmmaker Benjamin Best traveled for German TV WDR undercover to Qatar and filmed secretly massive exploitation of migrant worker from Nepal on FIFA World Cup construction sites. Because of his reporting FIFA admitted for the first time violations of worker standards on FIFA World Cup construction sites. The Nepali government granted WDR's request for official data regarding Nepali workers in Qatar, which showed that 1.426 workers had died in Qatar between 2009 and 2019. Benjamin Best filmed 125 Nepali workers that did not receive any salary for up to eight months, had their passports illegally confiscated and were only able to eat bread and drink water. Their accommodations were in a terrible state.